Literature Resources
Active Learning Online
General and Multigenre
EServer:Accessible Online Publishing at Iowa State University links to full texts of works
in various genres and fields, including drama, fiction, and poetry works,
commentary, and criticism.
Humbul Humanities Web at Oxford University offers several portals for literature, linguistics, and language resources.
Hyperizons links to hypertext fiction authors include Carolyn Guyer, Stuart Moulthrop, and Michael Joyce as well as less well-known authors.
Internet Public Library Online
Literary Criticism from the University of Michigan offers a browsable
index by author, title, nation, and literary period.
Literary Resources
on the Net is maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers, updated regularly,
and classified by topic, time period, or nationality. The annotations
within the categories are helpful, and his recommendations are reliable. Sites include archives of scholarship,
facsimiles of rare editions, critiques, commentaries, full texts, excerpts—a
wealth of digitized work.
Literary
Resources-Hypertext is a gateway within Lynch's Literary Resources
on the Net site. Here's a good starting point for exploring literary hypertexts
as well as theories about hypertext, including hypertexts on hypertext.
Project Gutenberg is the
twenty-year project to make as many texts as possible as widely available
as possible by volunteers digitizing out-of-copyright works.
Voice of the Shuttle by Alan Liu at
University of California Santa Barbara is an excellent starting place
for all humanities research.
VirtualLit offers tutorials from Bedford St. Martin.
Poetry
Academy of American Poets features poetry news and discussions, prizes, publications, and resources. Hear Wallace Stevens read "The Idea of Order at Key West" or Langston Hughes read "The Negro Dreams of Rivers."
The Poetry Archive is a British site that collects recordings of many poets reading their own works. You will need RealPlayer to listen.
Electronic Poetry Center links to authors' home pages (okay, James Joyce probably didn't know any HTML, but the EPC has made him a page), old and new poetry, journals and magazines, and other online poetry sites. Tour their Poetics link, and view hypermedia poetics at e-poetry.
PennSound is a project at the University of Pennsylvania "committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives"—a good way to get to know some contemporary poets in their own voices.
Internet Poetry Archive at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill features selected contemporary poets and selected texts accompanied by audio.
Poems That Go offers "intersections between motion, sound, images, text, and code....how language is shaped in new media spaces, how interactivity can change the meaning...."
more poetry next column
Poetry and Song explores
the "relationship between the written word and song....[with] writer
and keyboardist Bill Payne from the group Little Feat..."
Poetry & Literature Center, Library of Congress, includes poetry news, poetry Webcasts, Poetry
180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools, and a link to our Poet Laureate.
Interactive Poetry (and Drawing)
Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies site with a free downloadable poetry generator and The Age of Intelligent Machines: "A (Kind of) Turing Test"
Poetry Writing and Reading Experiments from poet and professor Charles Bernstein.
Fiction and Drama
The General and Multigenre listings above are good resources for fiction and drama.
Reading and Writing about Literature
Poems about Reading, Writing, and Poetry
Reading and Writing about Fiction: a few notes to complement your textbook
Reading and Writing about Poetry: a few notes to complement your textbook
Themes, Eras, and Authors
Poetry and Technology: Verbal and Visual Images
Early American Voices: Native American Orality, Virginia, New England Pilgrims and Puritans
Slave Narratives: Slavery, Equiano, Jacobs
Romanticism and Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe
Harlem Renaissance Resources
Hughes Blues (2 Poems by Langson Hughes)
Art and New Media: motion studies, digital dance, unusual instruments
Allusion, Artistry, and the Fall of Icarus: an outdated attempt that focuses on W. H. Auden's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," Breughel's paintings, and understanding literary allusions
for educational purposes only
thanks to Sadie Cornell, Dona Hickey, Cindy Selfe, and Art
Young
site developed March 2001 and modified 6 December 2005 by D.
Reiss